Vatican Updates List of "Seven Deadly Sins"

[Mike Ellis]

This just leaves me shaking my head. Where do they come up with this stuff? These have as much Biblical support as listing the 7 Dwarves as deadly sins. Does PC truly run the freakin' world today?

Bad news for Dollartarians and druggies: Your favorite highs are now verboten.

Vatican Includes Drugs and Wealth in New Sin List : NPR

Vatican Includes Drugs and Wealth in New Sin List

Day to Day, March 11, 2008 · In an effort to appeal to the modern Catholic, the Vatican has announced a list of seven new mortal sins. Some of the new don'ts: thou shalt not pollute and thou shalt not have too much money.

Madeleine Brand speaks with Father James Martin, acting publisher of the Jesuit magazine America, about the importance of updating the 1,500-year-old sin list.

"I think it's to remind people that sins are not just individual," he says referring to the Catholic church's old seven deadly sins — lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. "There's also social sins .. .sins that affect the community at large and sins that an institution can engage in."

The New Mortal Sins

1.) genetic modification

2.) carrying out experiments on humans

3.) polluting the environment

4.) causing social injustice

5.) causing poverty

6.) becoming obscenely wealthy

7.) taking drugs